Robinia pseudacacia
The intensely sour remedy. Everything is sour — eructations, vomiting, stools, perspiration. Acidity and heartburn worse at night, lying down. Migraine with sour vomiting. Frontal headache.
Source
Prepared from the bark of Robinia pseudacacia (Leguminosae/Fabaceae).
Available Potencies
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Keynote Symptoms
Intense acidity — everything sours. Sour eructations, sour vomiting, sour stools. Heartburn and acidity worse at night and lying down. Frontal headache with acidity. Sick headache with sour vomiting. Acidity of children. Nausea and vomiting of pregnancy with intense sourness.
Mind & Emotional Symptoms
Dull, depressed during acidity. Irritable. Difficulty concentrating.
General Symptoms
Intense sourness of all secretions. Worse at night, lying down, after eating, fat food. Better from sitting up, motion, cold food.
Physical Symptoms
Head
Frontal headache with intense acidity. Neuralgic headache, worse lying down. Dull, heavy.
Stomach
Intensely sour eructations. Heartburn — burning rising from stomach. Sour vomiting. Acidity constant. Nausea. Worse at night lying down. Gastric ulcer with acidity.
Abdomen
Sour, offensive flatulence. Colic in children from acidity.
Rectum
Stools sour, green. Infantile diarrhea — sour stools.
Modalities
Better From
Sitting up, motion, cold food
Worse From
Night, lying down, after eating, fat food
Constitutional Type
Not strongly constitutional. Used for intense acidity, heartburn, and sour vomiting.
Clinical Indications
Heartburn, gastric acidity, sour vomiting, migraine with acidity, pregnancy nausea with sourness, infantile colic with sour stools, GERD
Comparative Materia Medica
Iris versicolor has burning acidity but more periodic. Magnesia carbonica has sour stools in children but with more neuralgic pains. Calcarea carbonica is sour but chilly, fat, and sweaty.
Safety Information
Not well established.
Robinia bark and leaves contain robin, a toxic lectin similar to ricin but much less potent. Seeds can cause GI upset. The flowers are edible. Use potentised forms for medicinal use.
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